Python Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Python
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 15 14
Rank change year-on-year -28 -1 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 183 410 375
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 5.02% 9.35% 11.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.07% 29.12% 26.54%
Number of salaries quoted 100 191 220
10th Percentile £40,015 £42,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,875 £47,793
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,788 £55,050
Median % change year-on-year -10.16% +21.32% -8.25%
75th Percentile £72,813 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £90,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -4.17%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 589 1,408 1,413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.15% 32.12% 41.69%
Number of salaries quoted 416 808 977
10th Percentile £33,250 £38,584 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,527 £60,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% +6.15% -5.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £81,875 £87,500 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £59,063 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.88% +7.39% -4.35%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Python job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Python
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 22 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 22 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -41 85 £47,520 -32.11% 91
Oxfordshire +1 52 £65,000 +14.03% 103
Buckinghamshire -3 46 £60,000 +6.67% 45
Python
South East

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.09%) CMS
2 2 (1.09%) Confluence
3 1 (0.55%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.55%) Appian
3 1 (0.55%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (7.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.83%) MadCap Flare
3 1 (0.55%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.55%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.55%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 62 (33.88%) AWS
2 49 (26.78%) Azure
3 39 (21.31%) Power Platform
4 31 (16.94%) GCP
5 25 (13.66%) Amazon EC2
6 24 (13.11%) Serverless
7 20 (10.93%) Amazon EKS
8 19 (10.38%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (8.20%) GitHub
10 9 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (3.83%) dbt
11 7 (3.83%) Google Analytics
11 7 (3.83%) Google Docs
12 6 (3.28%) Amazon S3
12 6 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (3.28%) Snowflake
13 5 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (2.73%) SaaS
13 5 (2.73%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 4 (2.19%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.46%) DNS
2 9 (4.92%) Firewall
3 4 (2.19%) Broadband
3 4 (2.19%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.19%) Wireless
4 3 (1.64%) DHCP
4 3 (1.64%) HTTP
4 3 (1.64%) Internet
5 2 (1.09%) 5G
5 2 (1.09%) FTP
5 2 (1.09%) InfiniBand
5 2 (1.09%) LAN
5 2 (1.09%) SMTP
5 2 (1.09%) SSH
5 2 (1.09%) WAN
6 1 (0.55%) 4G
6 1 (0.55%) Modbus
6 1 (0.55%) MQTT
6 1 (0.55%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.55%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (19.67%) Power BI
2 28 (15.30%) Relational Database
3 26 (14.21%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (13.11%) BigQuery
5 19 (10.38%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (10.38%) RDBMS
6 15 (8.20%) Tableau
7 10 (5.46%) Metadata
8 7 (3.83%) SQL Server
8 7 (3.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (2.73%) NoSQL
9 5 (2.73%) Qlik Sense
10 4 (2.19%) MySQL
11 3 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.64%) Data Hub
11 3 (1.64%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.64%) Looker
12 2 (1.09%) Airbyte
12 2 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 31 (16.94%) Jenkins
2 21 (11.48%) Git
3 19 (10.38%) JMeter
3 19 (10.38%) JUnit
3 19 (10.38%) Mockito
4 9 (4.92%) JIRA
5 6 (3.28%) Selenium
6 5 (2.73%) GitLab
7 4 (2.19%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.19%) MLflow
7 4 (2.19%) Postman
7 4 (2.19%) SoapUI
7 4 (2.19%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.64%) Burp Suite
8 3 (1.64%) Metasploit
9 2 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.09%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.55%) Appium
10 1 (0.55%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
General
1 57 (31.15%) Social Skills
2 28 (15.30%) Law
2 28 (15.30%) Marketing
3 27 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (12.57%) Public Sector
5 21 (11.48%) Finance
6 13 (7.10%) Manufacturing
7 10 (5.46%) Retail
8 8 (4.37%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.73%) Legal
11 4 (2.19%) Retail Finance
12 3 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.09%) Banking
13 2 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.09%) Multimedia
13 2 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (1.09%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.55%) Games
14 1 (0.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 34 (18.58%) Developer
2 25 (13.66%) Architect
2 25 (13.66%) Senior
3 21 (11.48%) Analyst
3 21 (11.48%) Java Developer
4 20 (10.93%) Cloud Architect
4 20 (10.93%) GCP Architect
4 20 (10.93%) Platform Architect
5 18 (9.84%) Full-Stack Developer
6 17 (9.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 15 (8.20%) Mid-Level Java Developer
8 14 (7.65%) Software Engineer
9 9 (4.92%) Lead
10 8 (4.37%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 8 (4.37%) Data Engineer
11 7 (3.83%) Author
11 7 (3.83%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (3.83%) Technical Author
12 6 (3.28%) Data Analyst
12 6 (3.28%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (16.94%) REST
2 22 (12.02%) HTML
3 21 (11.48%) JSON
3 21 (11.48%) Spring
3 21 (11.48%) Spring Boot
4 20 (10.93%) Web Services
4 20 (10.93%) XML
5 19 (10.38%) ActiveMQ
5 19 (10.38%) Apache Camel
5 19 (10.38%) Hibernate
5 19 (10.38%) jQuery
5 19 (10.38%) WireMock
6 11 (6.01%) .NET
6 11 (6.01%) SOAP
7 7 (3.83%) React
8 6 (3.28%) Middleware
9 5 (2.73%) Lightning Web Components
9 5 (2.73%) Visualforce
10 4 (2.19%) pytest
10 4 (2.19%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.66%) Cloud Native
2 20 (10.93%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.83%) Algorithms
4 6 (3.28%) Life Science
5 5 (2.73%) IoT
5 5 (2.73%) SCADA
5 5 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.19%) Industry 4.0
6 4 (2.19%) Learning Management System
6 4 (2.19%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 3 (1.64%) Animation
7 3 (1.64%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.64%) Replication
8 2 (1.09%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.09%) Hackathon
8 2 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.55%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.55%) Industrial Internet of Things
9 1 (0.55%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (15.30%) Linux
2 11 (6.01%) Windows
3 10 (5.46%) Unix
4 3 (1.64%) Kali Linux
5 2 (1.09%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.09%) VMS
6 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.55%) VxWorks
6 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (31.69%) Agile
2 56 (30.60%) Analytics
3 49 (26.78%) CI/CD
4 43 (23.50%) Business Intelligence
5 36 (19.67%) Roadmaps
6 35 (19.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 33 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (17.49%) Mentoring
9 31 (16.94%) Data Science
10 30 (16.39%) Strategic Roadmap
11 29 (15.85%) DevOps
12 28 (15.30%) SDLC
13 27 (14.75%) Cloud Security
14 24 (13.11%) Full-Stack Development
14 24 (13.11%) Performance Optimisation
14 24 (13.11%) TDD
15 23 (12.57%) Architectural Design
15 23 (12.57%) Cost Management
15 23 (12.57%) Microservices
16 22 (12.02%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 70 (38.25%) SQL
2 59 (32.24%) Java
3 41 (22.40%) JavaScript
4 26 (14.21%) Go
5 22 (12.02%) Shell Script
6 18 (9.84%) Bash
7 15 (8.20%) PowerShell
8 14 (7.65%) C#
9 13 (7.10%) C++
10 8 (4.37%) T-SQL
11 7 (3.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (3.28%) Kusto Query Language
13 5 (2.73%) Apex Code
13 5 (2.73%) C
13 5 (2.73%) Perl
13 5 (2.73%) PHP
14 4 (2.19%) Fortran
14 4 (2.19%) R
14 4 (2.19%) TypeScript
15 3 (1.64%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 40 (21.86%) Degree
2 29 (15.85%) Security Cleared
3 13 (7.10%) Master's Degree
4 11 (6.01%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.92%) Azure Certification
6 8 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.28%) PhD
8 5 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (2.19%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.64%) MCSE
10 3 (1.64%) OSCP
10 3 (1.64%) RHCE
11 2 (1.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (1.09%) LPIC
11 2 (1.09%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.55%) CREST Certified
12 1 (0.55%) GPEN
12 1 (0.55%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.20%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.37%) QA
3 5 (2.73%) GDPR
4 3 (1.64%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.64%) ECSS
4 3 (1.64%) NIST
5 1 (0.55%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 1 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.55%) GxP
5 1 (0.55%) HIPAA
System Software
1 37 (20.22%) Docker
2 4 (2.19%) vCloud
3 3 (1.64%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.09%) DFS Replication
4 2 (1.09%) GPFS
4 2 (1.09%) Lustre
4 2 (1.09%) NFS
4 2 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.55%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.55%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (31.15%) Kubernetes
2 20 (10.93%) Kibana
3 13 (7.10%) Ansible
3 13 (7.10%) Terraform
4 4 (2.19%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (2.19%) Kubeflow
4 4 (2.19%) Rundeck
5 3 (1.64%) Argo
5 3 (1.64%) Nmap
6 2 (1.09%) Grafana
6 2 (1.09%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.55%) Control-M
7 1 (0.55%) PingFederate
7 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.55%) SCCM
7 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.55%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (16.94%) Google
2 20 (10.93%) Dynatrace
3 19 (10.38%) Splunk
4 8 (4.37%) Microsoft
5 7 (3.83%) Salesforce
6 6 (3.28%) Databricks
6 6 (3.28%) VMware
7 5 (2.73%) Allen-Bradley
7 5 (2.73%) MuleSoft
7 5 (2.73%) Siemens
8 3 (1.64%) Talend
9 2 (1.09%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.09%) Aruba
9 2 (1.09%) HubSpot
9 2 (1.09%) Informatica
9 2 (1.09%) NVIDIA
9 2 (1.09%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.09%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.09%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.09%) Zoho